Drawings, digital works, blog posts, code, and other muses.https://www.madisonbahmer.com/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2023/10/motocross-stats-powered-by-elasticsearch-and-kibana/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2023/10/motocross-stats-powered-by-elasticsearch-and-kibana/I've been wanting to make this blog post for a long time, and today it's finally here. A data analysis and look back on my motocross career from 2006-2010.Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:30:44 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2022/07/life-after-death/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2022/07/life-after-death/My thoughts on what happens after your time is up.Sun, 31 Jul 2022 04:50:16 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2021/11/opalescent-brain/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2021/11/opalescent-brain/My first ever gallery is live in Leesburg, VA!Wed, 24 Nov 2021 03:48:24 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2021/10/disintegration/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2021/10/disintegration/4 years has been too long, my latest drawing has sprung to lifeTue, 19 Oct 2021 03:34:31 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2021/05/2021-gallery/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2021/05/2021-gallery/A year after covid struck, a year after my indoor mural, what is there to do?Sun, 16 May 2021 04:04:31 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2020/11/artwork/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2020/11/artwork/What is Art? What is Work? Is Work, Art; or is Art, Work?Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:53:17 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2019/12/rainflows-mural/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2019/12/rainflows-mural/Well it's finally done, the mural I have been painting for the past 6 months is finished!Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:35:23 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2019/07/elastic-blog-post-is-live/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2019/07/elastic-blog-post-is-live/This is a technical blog post I wrote for Elastic, check it out!Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:29:45 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2019/01/the-remixes/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2019/01/the-remixes/This blog post is about my latest artistic creations, a new collection I call "The Remixes."Mon, 07 Jan 2019 01:50:30 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2018/07/electric/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2018/07/electric/I have been wanting to type this up for a while now, and with the festival over now I can finally share!Sun, 22 Jul 2018 19:40:45 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2018/04/ever-evolving-creative-outlets/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2018/04/ever-evolving-creative-outlets/As time continues to pass, this is a look back on creative outlets new and old.Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:56:35 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/10/my-quest-for-100-uptime/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/10/my-quest-for-100-uptime/As with any software that I run, I would sure love for it to just stay up and running all the time. It doesn't always happen.Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:44:04 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/08/when-a-picture-is-worth-more-than-1000-words/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/08/when-a-picture-is-worth-more-than-1000-words/Ever get that feeling when you are looking at something, but just can't quite describe what it all means?Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:19:36 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/05/latest-work-liquid-daze/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/05/latest-work-liquid-daze/It's a tradition of mine to roll out my new artwork in a blog post that outlines each of the thought processes that goes into creating it. I am happy to announce that I have finally wrapped up my latest drawing, Liquid Daze, and the following post outlines what went into its creationFri, 19 May 2017 22:41:47 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/03/the-juggling-act/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2017/03/the-juggling-act/Sometimes you have to take a moment and reflect on where you are, and where you see yourself going.Tue, 14 Mar 2017 05:23:19 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/12/new-collaboration-with-public-space-and-maps/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/12/new-collaboration-with-public-space-and-maps/I am very excited and proud to announce a new clothing collaboration between myself and an awesome brand called Public Space!Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:40:25 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/11/the-thanksgiveaway/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/11/the-thanksgiveaway/With all of this holiday cheer, why not give something back?Fri, 04 Nov 2016 04:53:59 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/09/phone-cases-now-available/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/09/phone-cases-now-available/After many requests and custom order, I am now happy to add a new product to my store!Fri, 23 Sep 2016 01:55:40 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/08/aws-ec2-elastic-load-balancers-and-cloudflare/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/08/aws-ec2-elastic-load-balancers-and-cloudflare/This is a small rant and hopefully helpful series of tips on how to set up a personal website using WordPress, Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, SSL Certificates, and CloudFlare.Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:38:18 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/08/upgraded-site/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/08/upgraded-site/While most of you probably are not aware of my site troubles, I think I have finally made it easier on myself!Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:27:29 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/07/forest-and-firefly/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/07/forest-and-firefly/This post is a bit late, but is a shout out to all the amazing people I met over the course of my 2 weeks worth of partying at Firefly and Electric Forest.Fri, 08 Jul 2016 01:23:45 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/05/will-open-source-for-food-or-alcohol/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/05/will-open-source-for-food-or-alcohol/This is not a stereotypical post about my artwork, instead it's a post about appreciation of some of my open source work!Mon, 02 May 2016 01:15:14 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/03/new-drawing-pixelated-thoughts/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2016/03/new-drawing-pixelated-thoughts/I have finally finished my latest drawing after about 9 months of off and on work! I would argue it is my most complex drawing yet, so read on to find out more.Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:08:24 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/11/where-has-all-my-art-work-gone/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/11/where-has-all-my-art-work-gone/This post is really just an update on what has been happening around me and how the progress of my latest projects are going. Yes, I have are that is in the works. No, I don't have a timeframe of when it will be done.Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:32:56 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/07/electric-forest-love/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/07/electric-forest-love/Electric Forest, you have come and gone already! What an awesome place and I hope to be able to come back next year.Sat, 04 Jul 2015 15:55:39 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/06/bonnaroo-love/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/06/bonnaroo-love/I just wanted to give a quick shout out to everyone I was lucky enough to run into at Roo this year. Met a lot of amazing people and hopefully will be back again next year!Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:57:13 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/06/random-thoughts-and-a-2-month-sale/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/06/random-thoughts-and-a-2-month-sale/This year I will be attending both Bonnaroo and Electric Forest festivals, and I thought I would spread some love and offer a 25% off discount for anyone interested in buying something from my site through July 31st. If you also would like a bit of food for thought on my artwork and trying to live a happy life, then read on...Sat, 06 Jun 2015 18:21:07 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/04/my-first-tapestry/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/04/my-first-tapestry/I finally found a company that would do custom printed tapestries, so I decided to do a test print to see how they would turn out. I am very happy to say I was not disappointed!Sun, 19 Apr 2015 15:00:04 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/03/the-god-of-sound-has-arrived/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/03/the-god-of-sound-has-arrived/When pressure waves emanate through a material, we commonly refer to this phenomenon as Sound. This material composition is what makes up our world, and without these waves of pressure we would have no songs, no musical instruments, no vocal communication, no laughter, no background noise, nothing. Just silence. But there is noise in this world, and for that, let us give praise to the Soundeity.Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:20:41 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/02/site-update/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2015/02/site-update/This past Monday I took some time to give my site a new look and feel.Tue, 17 Feb 2015 02:23:01 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/10/dyswis-finally-complete/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/10/dyswis-finally-complete/I would like to start this post off with an old Christmas Carol... Said the little lamb to the shepard boy Do you hear what I hear Ringing through the sky shepard boy Do you hear what I hear...Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:30:55 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/10/artist-threads-is-officially-live/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/10/artist-threads-is-officially-live/How long has it been, two months since I last posted anything new or exciting to this site? Well sometimes work gets in the way, sometimes life, but luckily we have all still been hard at work. This goes for not only me, but for a new start up called Artist Threads.Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:55:21 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/08/rehash-of-an-old-friend/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/08/rehash-of-an-old-friend/For something new in the works I realized I needed one extra piece of artwork. My current work in progress is no where near finished, so why not bring back an old friend?Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:56:44 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/07/new-drawing-lovegarithmic-complete/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/07/new-drawing-lovegarithmic-complete/So it has been a while since I have been able to dedicate some serious time to drawing, but over the past couple weeks I managed to finally complete my latest work, so let's check out how it was made!Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:05:49 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/05/bitcoin-now-accepted/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/05/bitcoin-now-accepted/This is a relatively short post to announce that the Bitcoin checkout was tested and working in my shop!Wed, 21 May 2014 23:07:12 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/04/day-of-doodling-last-weekend/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/04/day-of-doodling-last-weekend/Last weekend I sat down and decided I would start something completely random and just draw for the whole day straight. I wanted to do something unplanned and spontaneous, and this post is about what I came up with.Sat, 26 Apr 2014 16:08:58 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/04/shop-is-live/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/04/shop-is-live/Well that went a lot easier than I expected, the Paypal checkout is tested and 100% working! Both digital and giclee canvas prints are available!Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:58:27 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/04/my-first-prints-have-arrived/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/04/my-first-prints-have-arrived/Last week I placed my first order for digital prints and a couple giclee canvas prints, and they finally arrived today! I was pretty nervous opening them up, and honestly didn't really know what to expect.Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:08:07 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/reprint-digital-files-finished/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/reprint-digital-files-finished/I have been hard at work trying to get my two latest works into a digital format so I can begin the process of doing test prints. Well, I finally figured out all the quirks and I think I am satisfied with them to the point where I want to see what they look like when they are printed!Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:15:43 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/the-lifecycle-of-a-flash-game/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/the-lifecycle-of-a-flash-game/The end of reign of my flash games has come upon me. It all started with a strange email that I got from the flash game advertising company I go through, MochiMedia.Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:48:30 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/upcoming-store/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/upcoming-store/This is a relatively small post concerning what I have been working on and what is upcoming for the next month.Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:03:42 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/binary-fracture-complete/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/03/binary-fracture-complete/So I recently completed the next large scale piece I wanted to do, called Binary Fracture. Let's see how it was made!Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:32:32 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/02/ravenectar-voting-complete-upcoming-shop/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/02/ravenectar-voting-complete-upcoming-shop/So the voting is done, and I finally got the results back! How exactly did I fare against some really tough competition? Also, what on earth is the "Shop" tab for?Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:26:52 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/02/the-making-of-my-cardinal-home/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/02/the-making-of-my-cardinal-home/Welcome to this blog post about how I created my latest design, "My Cardinal Home". It is done on 19x24 inch Bristol Paper, and I hope this post serves to help inspire others as well as teach them how to make very beautiful and vibrant designs with time and patience.Fri, 07 Feb 2014 03:00:29 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/02/ravenectar-voting-is-live/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2014/02/ravenectar-voting-is-live/Quick vote link is here at www.ravenectar.com/vote So I was hard at work in November and December of 2013 after I contacted a company called RaveNecater to try and get some of my artwork on to t-shirts. Their company model is really cool, and any artist in their store gets 20% of each shirt sale! I was actually a funder for their kickstarter program, so I had been getting bits and pieces as to how they were doing for a while now. After contemplating talking with them for a solid 3 months, I finally had the guts to offer up my portfolio, and I was pleasantly surprised when they said they digged some of my artwork and were interested in putting together some shirts!Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:56:36 GMThttps://www.madisonbahmer.com/2013/10/new-site-hosted-by-a-beagleboard-xm-with-dynamic-dns/https://www.madisonbahmer.com/2013/10/new-site-hosted-by-a-beagleboard-xm-with-dynamic-dns/For over five years I have been shelling out almost $100 a year for web and hosting services I hardly even use. From a beginner's standpoint, or someone not tech savvy (like I used to be), hosting and creating a website is a daunting task, and the intimidation level is pretty high. How do I know what to do? What services do I need? What is MySQL and do I need it?Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:04:26 GMT